Paypal Security. All you need to know about it.

With PayPal, all your sensitive business and customer information is securely encrypted

As you can see in the above Video, Paypal ensure it’s clients that it offers unbeatable security, that Paypal is securely encrypted, that the customers will fill more likely to buy and sell their services or anything else. There’s a 24/7 security department that monitors transactions around the clock in order to prevent fraud before it affects it’s customers businesses.

Now let’s get to the real world. This are just words, big words without any proof of concept.

I searched on Google for “paypal security” and I noticed a good question:

PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information with an encryption key length of 128-bits (the highest level commercially available). Before you even register or log in to the PayPal site, Paypal’s servers checks if you’re using an approved browser (one that uses SSL 3.0 or higher).

What Makes the PayPal Site So Secure?

Tip for developers

I recently saw a presentation regarding Paypal Security in Ruby on Rails. The description of the tutorial is:

This episode shows how to encrypt the variables passed to PayPal and verify the authenticity of the payment notifications (IPN).

There is a video tutorial which explains how to encrypt variables and send them to Paypal. The principle could by applied on any programming language. There are some important settings that you probably haven’t considered yet.

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